They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth
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Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story morning And evening, but for twelve months, and he will become our master.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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